Mara Collins didn't plan to have a one-night-stand with the man who hated her the most in college, but after a truth-or-dare game gone wrong, she wakes up to find herself tangled in the sheets with him. What follows after that night scars her for life as Damian rains abuses on her before walking out of her life. She got pregnant and has a sick son who needs constant treatment, but her salary is barely enough to help them. When her son gets worse, she is driven into desperation to do the unthinkable which earns her a job in the highest paying company of the country as the secretary to Damian Voss, her worst enemy. Damien Voss recognizes her instantly as the scholarship student he hated back in college, and the disturbing memory of sleeping with her and regretting it the next morning. He can't fire her because his father is in charge of her employment, but he does everything possible to make her resign but nothing gets through to her. She isn't even moved by his actions and she does her job flawlessly and treats his ego like a minor inconvenience, and it maddens him. He wants her out of his company and out of his life for good, but the more she resists his advances, the darker his obsession becomes of her, and he realizes his feelings have gone past hatred to something else he can't name, and Mara? She has her secret to keep until she can afford a decent life, until then, Damian is a nobody to her.